Portuguese 7.62 NATO ammo

Light Infantry said:
I recall reading a long time ago, that the Hirtenberger ammo came in both berdan and boxer primers. Anyone care to shed some light on that?
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Can't shed any light on it having both but the last 1500 of the 5 cases I picked up have all been boxer. So far so good ;)
Runs a bit hotter than other ammo I shoot but my krieger barrelled 18.5" m14 loves it.
 
simonyzer said:
I should have been more explicit.... Districorp was selling Hirtemberger ammo in the 90's and early 2000's. They no longer exist
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Hirtenberger milspec 7.61 x 51 is incredibly accurate ammo. Boxer primed. My M-305 (with a cheap scope mount) would make looney sized groups with this ammo at 100 meters with no flyers. The ejected brass would land in a neat pile about 3 feet away.
 
The Portuguese is the BEST 7.62x51 surplus I have EVER had. My springfield M1A NM in Troy Chassis absolutely loves this stuff. My first time out after sighting in the scope both I and another shooter were getting 1.25-1.5" groups at 100 yards (prone, bipod, rear mono pod, 22x scope) and I am not a great shot. The Norinco copper washed surplus was doing 3-4" due to flyers. I cant believe I blew off 200 rounds of the portuguese in my M1919 in a few minutes long before I realized how good it was. Doh!
 
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